N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

If you don’t have a big advertising budget, and even if you do, social media provides a significant opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations and interactions with your customers that broadcast media simply cannot produce. Keep posting interesting matters here.Thanks for the update.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

On the other hand, please note it commits you to nothing with regard to changing your lifestyle/romantic relationships/politics/personal grooming choices/childrearing policies, or any of the other topics that appear to be fair game when any family gathers to give thanks.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Recently, she’s been spotted in the company of politicians and Presidential candidates creating speculation that she may leave the corporate world for a stint in the political world. That remains to be seen, but one thing seems certain – Meg Whitman will undoubtedly be successful in any endeavor she pursues in the future.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I wasn’t getting the answers I wanted from the one person I was talking with – he kept saying “no” – so I politely ended the call. Last week I called my cell phone provider to modify the service, cancel a line, add a data line, etc.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Strong yet Others are from books, films and politics. I believe we can stand on the shoulders of the past by exploring the legacy of the women who held out a hand when the terrain was rocky, gave us courage when it looked hopeless, encouraged us to keep on keeping on no matter what. The others can get a silent salute from the heart.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

I have learned over the years to make meetings meaningful and productive, but it has become a developed skill over time. Here are a few ideas: If invited to a meeting, request an agenda if one is not provided When attending the meeting, help to keep it on task by politely asking, “where are we in the agenda?&#

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. I connected again with him on Facebook through the online version of that same political group, and I let him know what I do for a living. Recently, his company needed a web designer.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Maybe it’s just a nice politically correct soundbite that gets some good play, or is it simply flawed logic? But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. Since when are a healthy culture and sound business strategy bifurcated?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Like with advertising, fifty-percent of promotional efforts work. But the advertiser or the promoter can’t know in advance which fifty-percent! Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

The law’s passage comes on the heels of a few days of intense negotiation among privacy advocates, technology startups, network providers, Silicon Valley internet companies, and others. These measures might significantly cut into the profits these firms currently enjoy, or force adjustments to their revenue-growth strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

voters and appeal to their hopes, neuroses, and fears, the political consulting firm needed to train its algorithm to predict and map personality traits. Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. political system, including the 2016 U.S. ” To target U.S. Nor is it likely to be the last.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Consumers have already seen a range of developments resulting from the forthcoming enforcement of the GDPR. How will digital marketers from Dior to the NBA to political campaigns channel the right marketing messages to the right eyeballs at the right times? For many, the answer will lie in contextual advertising.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Firms engage in political “rent seeking”—lobbying for regulations that provide them sheltered markets—rather than competing on innovation. Perhaps profits are rising because firms are increasingly making profitable investments in new technology, in IT, or in their organizational capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

This week, Facebook took advantage of this asset for political purposes. Outside developers are now welcome, but must apply, and must play by Facebook’s limiting technical rules in order to be served up by Internet.org’s delivery platform. Close to 1.5 billion people view it at least monthly.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

Resistance to disruptive, technology-driven change is not unusual. A retailer implemented a website advertising optimization tool. But the vice president of analytics saw the new system as a diversion from his plans for his analytics teams and the company’s technology investments. ” Disruption of relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

Concerns about political risk have heightened in the light of tit-for-tat sanctions between Russia and the West. Restrictions on the ability of Russian banks to sell financial instruments were imposed, as were bans on selling technology that would help Russia develop its vast energy reserves. The details suggest not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. These findings are especially useful for any companies facing a large portfolio of products, continuous technological change, short life cycles, and high levels of product obsolescence. Killing products isn’t easy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

There are just too many factors beyond your control that will shape your job options--global economic trends, political elections, and technological changes, just to name a few. Gaining experience outside your home country is another way to develop transferable knowledge. That you can't control the trajectory of your career.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

A combination of facial analysis, voice pattern analysis, and deep learning can already decode human emotions for market research and political polling purposes. ” The discussion around addictive technology is starting to examine the intentions behind voice assistants.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals. The technology will also help you make a a core decision: is attending, sponsoring, or exhibiting at this event worth it?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Frito-Lay has already made competition the cornerstone of its Super Bowl advertising , and Toyota , desperate to remind people what a wonderful corporate citizen it can be, invites aspiring innovators to suggest how the firm's technology can be used for good in unexpected ways. WWWabs go mainstream worldwide next year.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The idea isn’t new — it’s well established in online advertising, for example — but its application is becoming more widespread in the private and public sectors. There is enough time to develop innovative solutions to achieve the results. ” U se of digital technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

Indeed, the creation of human tasks in the wake of technological advancement has been a part of automation’s history since the invention of the machine lathe. This blend of AI and humans, who follow through when the AI falls short, isn’t going away anytime soon.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

°F) — a level that seemed politically feasible, but still leads to vast damage, including the death of all coral; even more deadly storms and heat; and rising oceans covering low-lying island nations and major coastal areas. So, to go even further, companies need to also consider who they support for political office.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2016

You might be surprised to learn that the Consumer Electronics Association is now called the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). This understated-but-safe approach was also used by the American Society of Training & Development (ASTD) when it rebranded to the Association for Talent Development (ATD) in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

But that policy came at the cost of badly degraded incentives for providers to invest in new technologies, leaving the EU with minimal cable Internet, fiber-optic networks, or high-speed mobile broadband. Regardless of speed or technology, broadband availability in Europe is far behind. At least for voice services, the U.S. of all U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Couple the lack of transparency of marketing generally with the shock of new technology, and you get anxiety over information use that increasingly translates into calls for legislation or regulatory intervention. New laws aimed at specific technologies, however, are the worst possible outcome. Communication Innovation Politics'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data. Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics. by Thomas H.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Neither digital technology nor the corporation itself is necessarily to blame for the current predicament. Boards incentivize CEOs to increase short-term profits by any means necessary, even if it means defunding research and development labs and personnel whose value creation may be a few years off.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Other times, employers don’t want salaries to foment internal politics. This approach wouldn’t fly in advertising or marketing, where segmenting target audiences by demographic underlies every message we read, hear or see in media. Setting up technological barriers for job seekers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

While the creators of the national accounts that gave us GDP and Gross National Product understood that these numbers were inventions not intended to measure happiness, well-being, or all aspects of material life, that distinction has inexorably been lost as the number become the primary marker of political success and national greatness.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. In each simulated time period, the player makes strategic decisions and receives feedback from past decisions—on how fast to grow, how to set prices, or how aggressively to advertise.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

Take Noah Tannen, who used to work as a copywriter and creative director at an advertising and design firm. Or consider Chris Anderson, who was tiring of his job as a political science professor when his wife gave him a copy of the book Moneyball. ” Chris started a blog to explore and develop his ideas about soccer analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

In fact, that's the goal — lazy people will get on a career development kick when they're panicked about finding a new job, and their interest will wane the moment they land one. But she was polite and persistent enough that I finally agreed to meet for coffee, and we had a good conversation in which I advised her to start a blog. (She

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